My Rating: In 2007 Irish filmmaker John Carney wrote and directed a hugely successful (including an Academy Award win for Best Original Song) film called Once. A sweet, semi-musical about a down on his luck folk singer who meets a woman who inspires him and then creates an album with her and a rag tag […]

We Oscar obsessives discuss the Academy Awards throughout the year, but the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off what we refer to as the Oscar season – and with good reason, as we have lots of ground to cover this week. Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate kicked off the fest with mostly weak notices. Faring even […]